What happens when one of the most recognizable features of Armenian identity becomes something to fix? From the “Most Armenian Nose” contest to TikTok’s “Barbie nose,” Iren Bakunts looks at how beauty standards, social pressure and rhinoplasty are changing the way Armenians see their own faces.
At the UN General Assembly, Armenia and Azerbaijan presented two visions of a changing regional order. Sossi Tatikyan examines their approaches to multilateralism, foreign policy, peace, connectivity and the conflict’s legacy, highlighting growing convergence alongside persistent differences in how the two countries frame the future.
Using Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined world of Tlön as a lens, Sebouh David Aslanian examines Azerbaijan’s decades-long reinvention of Caucasian Albania, arguing that a fabricated historical narrative has been deployed to appropriate Armenian heritage, erase the region’s Armenian past, and reshape the South Caucasus in the present.
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